NEWS BRIEFING: Time to get cracking with CO2 removal - report

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2023-01-19 11:01

Australia; International; NSW; ACT

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**Briefing Recording Now Available** With climate change already impacting every corner of the globe, there is an urgent need to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to buy us time as the world transitions to a zero-carbon future. CDR takes many forms, from planting trees to new technologies that draw CO2 out of the atmosphere and store it or use it for other purposes. This briefing will launch a major report into the state of global carbon dioxide removal and what we need to do to enable CDR to help us meet our Paris agreements and keep temperature rise to well below 2°C.

News release

From: Australian Science Media Centre

Date: Wednesday 18 January 2023
Start Time: 11:00am AEDT
Duration: Approx 45 min
Venue: Online - Zoom

Speakers:

Gregory Nemet is a co-author of the report and is a Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dr Annette Cowie is a co-author of the report and is Senior Principal Research Scientist, Climate Branch within the NSW Department of Primary Industries and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England
Aaron Tang is a PhD Scholar and Lecturer (Climate Policy), Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University and a Research Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge

The briefing recording is now available.
For further information, please contact the AusSMC on 08 7120 8666 or email info@smc.org.au.

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Organisation/s: NSW Government, The University of New England, University of Oxford, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, University of Winsconcin-Madison (see report for a full list)

Funder: National Environment Research Council (UK), European Research Council, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Carbon Gap, Bank of America

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